Kingdom Fungi


Mushrooms is a organism that make up the fungi kingdom



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This is a eukaryote cell

This is multicelled

The cell wall is mostly composed of chitin

It is a heterotroph

The four groups of this is primitive fungi, sac fungi, bread mold, and club fungi . Primitive fungi is the smallest and simplest group of fungi. They are the only fungi with flagalleted spores. Some primitive fungi are decomposers, others are parasites of protists, plants, and animals . Sac fungi are yeast, morels, and truffles. Sac fungi is a diverse group that all form a sac, called ascus. Many sac fungi are sac and cup shaped. Bread mold range from spoiling food to soy sauce that we like to eat with our food. Most members in this group get their food by decomposing dead or decaying matter . There is really one group of symbiotic fungi in this group. Club fungi gets its name for having its body club-shaped. This group have mushrooms, puffballs, and bracket fungi . This group also contain rust and smut, which are two types of fungi that give diseases to plants.

Fungi can affect industry by being on wood because it basically cover good lumber to build houses and make the lumber rotten. For example, you can't make houses if the wood is breaking because it gets soft from the mold. Also, fungi can affect the industry by having mold contaminating production facilities, which means it can spread to products that may affected our health. For example, if mold spread on our food, it can affect us if we eat it. Plus, fungi can affect the industry by giving certain things that we eat diseases, which can kill us. For example, plants may get the diseases from the fungi and when we eat it. We also get it.

Three disease fungi can give you are candidia, dutch elm, and histoplasmosis. Candidia affect humans. Candidiasis can affect humans; its symptoms are headaches, ithching, migraines, depression, muscle weakness, and many more. It can be cured by taking acidophilus which bring down this disease because really everyone have Candidia. It just that if it overflow in your immune system than you have to take medicine and be on a diet. Dutch elm can affect elms. It symptoms are wilting, branches brittling, and branches turning green and yellow. Its cure with a chemical spray called fungicides. Histoplasmosis can affect humans; its symptoms are coughing, chest pain, chills, fever, and etc. It can be cured by antifungal drugs which are amphotericin B, itraconazole, and ketoconazole.








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Chyridiomycota

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Common name: Chytrids

Description: Smallest and simplest fungi

Ascomycota

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Common name: Sac fungi

Description: Known for fruitbodies such as mushrooms

Zygomycota

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Common name: "Pin or sugar" mold

Description: Commonly thought of bread mold. Have seven different odors

Basidiomycota

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Common name: club fungi

Descripition: A bunch of different types of fungus; look like a club





















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